气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Investing in a good pair of wellies: how do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation?

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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02455-0
	Investing in a good pair of wellies: how do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation?
	Harcourt R.; Bruine de Bruin W.; Dessai S.; Taylor A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	257
结束页码	272
卷号	155 期号:2
英文摘要	The UK is already experiencing the impacts of climate change and these are expected to increase in scale and severity in the coming decades. Preparing for impacts by undertaking adaptive actions can potentially reduce the level of harm. In the UK, the government’s adaptation program aims to develop a “climate-ready society.” However, achieving broad public engagement in adaptation presents a significant communications challenge. Here, we aimed to understand how UK residents use and interpret the terms “climate change impacts” and “climate change adaptation.” We conducted a secondary analysis of 22 interviews with UK residents, who were recruited for their diverse climate change views. The interviewees expressed a lack of clarity around expected climate change impacts, which did not prevent them from saying that they were already experiencing the effects of a changing climate. Further, threats to cultural norms and values were perceived as serious and emotionally charged. Adaptation was often conflated with mitigation, and responsibility for adaptation was contested. We discuss the implications of our findings for developing more useful public communication about climate change adaptation. © 2019, The Author(s).
英文关键词	Adaptation; Climate change impacts; Public engagement; Responsibility; Science communication
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Behavioral research; Binary alloys; Adaptation; Climate change impact; Public engagement; Responsibility; Science communications; Climate change; adaptation; climate change; communication; expert system; public attitude; questionnaire survey; terminology; United Kingdom
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147438
作者单位	Univeristy of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Harcourt R.,Bruine de Bruin W.,Dessai S.,et al. Investing in a good pair of wellies: how do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation?[J],2019,155(2).
APA	Harcourt R.,Bruine de Bruin W.,Dessai S.,&Taylor A..(2019).Investing in a good pair of wellies: how do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation?.Climatic Change,155(2).
MLA	Harcourt R.,et al."Investing in a good pair of wellies: how do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation?".Climatic Change 155.2(2019).